[1/2] [website] Add up-to-date download page for Debian

Kyle Auble kyle.auble at zoho.com
Sat Sep 19 22:00:36 CDT 2015


I know the old page was removed just a few months ago, but I wrote a new
one (modeled on the Ubuntu page). It explains the differences between
"wine" vs. "wine-development" and has instructions for those that want
the Backports version. Also, per the suggestion at the end of the Debian
bug report, the links to Debian package info are for both packages, and
each lists all available versions.

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+<!--TITLE:[Installing the latest Wine on Debian]-->
+<!--BLURB:[Installing the latest Wine on Debian]-->
+
+<h1 class="title"><a href="https://www.debian.org/" target="_new">
+<img src="{$root}/images/distro/debian.png" width="50" height="50"
+  alt="Debian Logo" border="0"></a>
+Wine on Debian
+<a href="https://www.debian.org/" target="_new">
+<img src="{$root}/images/distro/debian.png" width="50" height="50"
+  alt="Debian Logo" border="0"></a></h1>
+
+<p>You can directly install software for Debian from <i>.deb</i> package
+files, but using the APT package manager (or a front-end such as
+Aptitude or Synaptic) to get software from the official Debian repos is
+much safer and cleaner. This page explains how to install your preferred
+version of Wine this way.</p>
+
+<h2>Apt-Get Basics (for 32-Bit Debian)</h2>
+
+<p>So long as your package system is configured correctly and
+up-to-date, grabbing Wine should be simple, whether you use Debian
+<i>stable</i>, <i>testing</i>, or <i>unstable</i>. On <b>32-bit</b>
+Debian, you can install a stable release of Wine with a single
+<i>apt-get</i> command:</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install wine</pre>
+
+<p>Starting with Debian Jessie (release 8.0), there is also a package of
+Wine's development release that can be installed alongside the stable
+release:</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install wine-development</pre>
+
+<p>Note that you currently need to use the command
+'<b>wine-development</b>' instead of '<b>wine</b>' to run the
+development version from the command-line.</p>
+
+<p>Also, while the "wine-development" package on Debian <i>unstable</i>
+should closely track upstream, the version on Debian <i>stable</i> will
+only upgrade with each new release of Debian. Similarly, the version on
+Debian <i>testing</i> will track upstream except while Debian is in its
+biennial code-freeze.</p>
+
+<h2>On 64-Bit Debian</h2>
+
+<p>Even if your system uses <b>64-bit</b> Debian, you probably still
+want a Wine installation that can run 32-bit Windows applications. To
+install 32-bit application support, just make sure your system is
+configured to pull in 32-bit packages and the index is updated
+first:</p>
+
+<pre>
+sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install wine-development
+</pre>
+
+<p>Starting with Debian Stretch, you can also install Wine on 64-bit
+ARM systems:</p>
+
+<pre>
+sudo dpkg --add-architecture armhf
+sudo apt-get update
+sudo apt-get install wine-development
+</pre>
+
+<h2>Debian Backports</h2>
+
+<p>If you are on Debian <i>stable</i> and want a newer version of
+"wine-development", starting with Debian Jessie, you can grab a version
+in sync with upstream from Debian <i>backports</i>. To install it, you
+need to
+<a href="http://backports.debian.org/Instructions/" target="_new">
+enable the Backports repo
+</a>
+first by adding the following line to one of your <i>sources.list</i>
+files (replace <b>xx</b> with an appropriate country code):</p>
+
+<pre>
+deb ftp://ftp.xx.debian.org/debian/ jessie-backports main contrib
+</pre>
+
+<p>You can do this either through Synaptic
+(<b>Settings -> Repositories -> Other Software -> Add</b>)
+or by editing the <i>sources.list</i> file directly
+('<b>sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list</b>').
+Once you've added your sources, update your package index
+(<b>Reload</b> in Synaptic or '<b>sudo apt-get update</b>' on the
+  command-line).</p>
+
+<p>If you don't mind possibly upgrading other dependencies to
+<i>backports</i> versions too, you can install everything in one
+swoop:</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports wine-development</pre>
+
+<p>If you want to be more selective about keeping <i>stable</i>
+dependencies though, you can use the form:</p>
+
+<pre>sudo apt-get install wine-development/jessie-backports</pre>
+
+<p>However, if any other packages need to be installed or updated, this
+method will abort with a list of such packages. You can selectively
+install those from either <i>stable</i> or <i>backports</i>, then repeat
+the command to install "wine-development/jessie-backports".</p>
+
+<h2>More Information</h2>
+
+<p>For more info, you can see the Debian package site:</p>
+
+<ul><li>
+<a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=wine"
+  target="_new">
+wine
+</a> (stable release)</li>
+
+<li>
+<a href="https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=wine-development"
+  target="_new">
+wine-development
+</a> (development release)</li></ul>
+
+<p>There are also useful wiki pages out there too:</p>
+
+<ul><li>
+<a href="http://wiki.winehq.org/Debian" target="_new">
+Debian on the Wine Wiki
+</a></li>
+
+<li>
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/Wine" target="_new">
+Wine on the Debian Wiki
+</a></li></ul>
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